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Finlay, Caitríona; Kinsella, William; Prendeville, Paula – Professional Development in Education, 2022
In Irish classrooms, one option for educating children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) involves placement in a special class co-located in a mainstream primary school. This study surveyed 125 primary school teachers who taught in these classes. An evaluative framework of teachers' professional development was used to analyse primary teachers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Students with Disabilities, Autism
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Luckner, John L. – Teacher Education and Special Education, 1992
A survey was conducted of 77 U.S. and Canadian teacher preparation programs in education of hearing-impaired students. Findings indicated that most programs train teachers to work in self-contained settings and that most programs are inadequate for preparing teachers of secondary-level hearing-impaired students. (DB)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Delivery Systems, Hearing Impairments, Higher Education
Carlsson, Hans, Ed.; Sletved, Henning, Ed. – 1973
The proceedings of the Pre Congress Seminar on Special Education and Rehabilitation of the Mentally Retarded (Denmark, 1973) contains 15 author contributed papers on early education. Discussed are the following topics related to retardation: early education and integration, assessment and programing, effects of developmental training, curriculum…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Curriculum, Early Childhood Education, Exceptional Child Education
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Moore, Stephen C.; And Others – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1990
A survey of 64 Utah elementary and junior high special education teachers found that they provide little vocational and vocationally related task training. Middle school teachers in self-contained classrooms placed most emphasis on vocational training, followed by elementary resource room teachers, elementary self-contained teachers, and middle…
Descriptors: Career Education, Course Content, Curriculum, Disabilities
Saint-Laurent, Lise; Lessard, Jean-Charles – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1991
Using 41 students (ages 6-10) with moderate mental retardation as subjects, 3 different forms of academic integration are compared: special classes using a functional curriculum, special classes using a traditional curriculum, and regular classes. After the first year, no significant intergroup differences appeared for measurements of cognitive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis
Riches, Vivienne; And Others – 1993
This report summarizes results obtained for the first cohort of students (n=98) with disabilities involved in the pilot Transition Project begun in 1989 in New South Wales (Australia). Students were in either special schools (56 percent), special classes in regular high schools (40 percent), or integrated regular settings (3.5 percent). Of the…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Employment